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▪ I. impartible, a.1 (n.)|ɪmˈpɑːtɪb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. impartībilis, f. im- (im-2) + partībilis partible.]
Incapable of being parted or divided; not subject to partition or division into parts; indivisible. Now chiefly in legal use, of an estate.
1586Bright Melanch. xii. 58 In a nature so simple and impartible. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxxii. 394 The soule,..being a spirituall and impartible substance, can..have nothing severed from it. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xiv. 215 When the emperors began to create honorary feuds..it was found necessary..to make them impartible, or..feuda individua, and in consequence descendible to the eldest son alone. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 119 All of them pre-exist in intellect, but in an impartible..manner. 1890Times 8 Mar. 4/1 The question..whether the estate..was partible or impartible.
B. as n. Something that is indivisible.
1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 118. 1789 Ibid. II. 7 Impartibles..are pure from corporeal place, and external motions.
▪ II. † impartible, a.2 Obs. rare.
[f. L. impartī-rī (more correctly impertirī) to impart: see -ible.]
Capable of being imparted.
1631T. Powell Tom All Trades 142, I..desired to know so much..thereof as might be impartible to a freind of so small growth. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Impartible, that may be imparted. |